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ETIENNE JAY AND STEPHANE JAY, OF GRENOBLE, FRANCE.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,354, dated January24,

1890. Serial No. 369|414. (No model.)

Application filed October 27,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ETIENNE JAY and STEPHANE JAY, citizens of France,residing at Grenoble, France, have invented a certain new andusefulImprovement in Gloves, which is fully set forthin the followingspecification, reference being h ad to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l represents a plan for the thumb of a glove embodying ourinvention; Fig. 2, a view of said blank similar folded as for sewing tothe main portion of the glove; Fig. 3, a plan view of the back of thecompleted glove; and Fig. 4, a similar view of the front or inside ofthe same, broken away except around the thumb.

Our invention relates to an improvement in the connection between thethumb and the main portion of the glove, whereby more freedem ofmovement is provided for the thumb and the glove is easier and morecomfortable to the wearer.

In the ordinary manufacture of gloves, a small gore is provided at thejunction between the thumb and the palm or main body of the glove, thisgore being made as a separate piece set in between the two parts andstitched to them respectivelyT along its edges. It is well-known thatthis construction produces a kind of stiffness, so that in all closefitting gloves there is a very limited movement of the thumb possibleand it is the object of our present invention to obviate thisdifficulty.

In the drawings, A represents the blank for the thumb of the glove. Thisblank is of ,the usual form, except that at one of the side edges it hasa point or tapering projection, a, which is arranged to fill the anglebetween the thumb and the glove body when the former is stitched inplace. It will be noticed that the tapering extension a of the blankprojects outward from one edge of the latter for some little distancebefore there is any 45 separation between the two. This provides for thefilling of the angle, usually occupied by this extension by the separategore piece,

view of a blank combination at the back and some distance around infront of the glove. In Fig. 2 of the drawings, this blank is shownfolded and with this tapering 5o extension a turned down about inposition for stitching to the body. The body, B, of the glove is of theusual shape and only a portion thereof is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of thedrawings. The thumb piece or blank A is stitched to this body by theusual line of stitching, b, and the tapering extension a is broughtaround to'till the angle between the thumb and the body, as seen in Fig.3, being stitched at its end to the thumb piece and to 5o the body, asseen in Fig. 4. This leaves the for some distance between the thumb andlbody with only a single line of stitching, there being two lines only atthe point of the projection a. We have found that the glove thusconstructed is much more comfortable to the wearer and also that thereis much greater freedom to the movement of the thumb than in theordinary construction of gloves. 7o

In gloves of ordinary construction, the thumb is held up to the palm, sothat it has only a limited movement outward, or laterally; but with ourimprovementthe thumb may be freely moved outward with almost t-he 7 5same facility as when the hand is ungloved.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

In a glove, the palm or main portion, in 8o with the thumb provided withan extension from'one side only, terminating in an elongated taperingprojection formed integral therewith and folded across between the thumband main portion and down upon the opposite side with its edges joinedto the thumb and main portion, substantially as described.

ETrENNE JAY. STEPHANE JAY.

Witnesses:

ROBT. M. I-IooPEE, F. ROUSSEAU.

